Traffic analysis ports?

[Josef Karthauser]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:14:23PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for some software to basically analyse the traffic I've got
> > going over a particular pipe so that I can work out whether or what to
> > traffic shape.  Can anyone recommend anything? 
> 
> I tend to cut my own BPF-based tools as needed to measure particular types
> of traffic, but that's not a very scalable approach.  There are commercial
> products, such as NAI's Sniffer tool (I think it can read playback from
> pcap output), which claim to be able to help with that sort of analysis,
> but I've never really used them.  For a "first cut" visualization of
> currently active network connections, tools such as ntop, trafshow,
> tcpstat, etc, can actually provide surprising amounts of insight.
> 

Ahha, ntop.  That looks like just the kind of thing I was looking for.
Thanks :).

Joe
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